* This cost could be $0.00, if it is provided as part of a multi-year (3 yrs. or more) inmate telephone contract

All cost figures assume a construction start in the 2nd Qtr. 2014.

All figures, with the exception of costs/sf are rounded to the nearest $100.

REILLY JOHNSON ARCHITECTURE. Denver

nc6230. Curry County NM Cost Model C. 07.12.13

Letter to the Editor

July 8 2013

Letter to the Editor

I watch with interest the Clovis City Commission meetings on television, finding them informative , often deeply disturbing. It seems a change in leadership doesn’t mean a change in how the City Commissioners vote. It is curious that the old politics appears to dominate still..

I specifically refer to last Tuesday’s meeting. An agenda item to elect two representatives to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority was discussed. Mayor Lansford immediately stated he would not unseat Commissioner Garza on the authority. Obviously, there was some footwork behind the scenes prior to the meeting to do just that: remove Mr. Garza, appoint Mayor Lansford, and keep Ms. Brumfield. From that point on, it was pure theater. The majority of the commissioners voted not to approve the Lansford-Garza appointments, most believing Ms. Brumfield the better candidate with her political connections and experience. Their shabby treatment of Mr. Garza was appalling. Two interesting comments were made from the audience on the rejection of the T Boone Pickens water offer under then-Mayor Brumfield. Video is available on city website, cityofclovis.org, DVDs at city hall.

Final result: Garza and Brumfield reappointed. Commissioner Bryant said he will resign his seat so Mayor Lansford can serve. Meanwhile, the Water Authority will hold a townhall meeting THIS TUESDAY, which conveniently keeps Mayor Lansford on the sidelines.

My point: Citizens of Clovis, stay informed on the issues impacting our city and the decision-making behind them. Know who your city commissioner is, go online to obtain the meetings agenda (the newspaper posts meetings dates every two weeks), attend or watch the commission meetings on Cable channel 6, see how your commissioner votes. If you don’t agree with his/her position, make a call. We voters have the right to recall if they won’t listen.

Barack Obama's incessant changes to ObamaCare mean that this deal is getting worse all the time. Plus, a look at the deficit, the farm bill, the state of employment, kicking Walmart out of DC, FISA court changes, Egypt, Afghanistan, the Zimmerman trial and a Third Amendment case. And we wrap it all up with a trip to the moon.

Zimmerman, Deen and Racism in Black and White

By Mark Alexander

July 11, 2013

This week, while reviewing a new comprehensive national survey of racism from Rasmussen Reports, I was struck by this finding: "Among black Americans, 31% think most blacks are racist, while 24% consider most whites racist and 15% view most Hispanics that way." That study is an interesting backdrop for the trial by jury of former Neighborhood Watch organizer George Zimmerman, and the trial by Leftmedia of now former-Emmy Award-winning Food Network host Paula Deen. Shouldn't the President of the United States be held to the same standard as a TV show host?

Obama wants Americans not to be so "cynical" about government, but perhaps he should try not running a cynical government. Also today, thoughts about ObamaCare, immigration, Egypt, politicians' "private" lives and Dennis Rodman's bid for a Nobel Peace Prize.

The economy seemed to gain nearly 200,000 jobs last month, but the underlying data are disturbing: Far too many jobs are part-time, and labor participation is still not even close to pre-recession levels. In other news, the delay of the ObamaCare employer mandate has consequences, Egypt falls into chaos, what the Declaration of Independence really means, and the Left's culture war on our children.

Barack Obama just gutted the heart of his "signature" health care law by delaying the employer mandate until after the 2014 elections. Add it to the list of problems for the law. Plus, the U.S. president warns Africa about the U.S., the June jobs report, a coup in Egypt, and a Texas-sized abortion fight.

The Eternal Bequest

By Mark Alexander

July 3, 2013

Amid all the contemporary political and cultural contests, too many conservatives fail to make the case for overarching eternal truths. Lost in the din is the foundational endowment of Essential Liberty, and any debate that does not begin with this eternal truth will end with temporary deceits.

Part of defending Essential Liberty means defending its pillars, one of which is marriage and family. Also today, Obama goes after carbon, the IRS scandal is still important, politically correct antiterrorism, immigration, why Rome still has lessons for America and Jay Carney needs to find a new line of work.

The past week was a busy one for the Supreme Court, which struck down part of the Voting Rights Act and part of the Defense of Marriage Act, as well as other rulings. On top of that, the Senate passed its immigration bill, the IRS scandal broadens, Snowden is charged with espionage, GDP was quietly revised downward (again) while Obama executes his "war on coal," and Michael Bloomberg has a new scheme to save us.

Do as I Say, Not as I Do

By Mark Alexander

June 27, 2013

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Suppose you were a liberal. And suppose you were a hypocrite. But I repeat myself." Indeed, it's a near-universal truth about Leftists that they are consummate hypocrites. Alexander has listed some notable examples, and we invite you to add to the list through reader comments.

At a time when global warming is on the back burner, Barack Obama shoves it to the forefront in order to expand government and distract from scandal. The victims will be average Americans, who will suffer economic punishment. In other news, Supreme Court rulings, immigration and the federal budget.

The Senate immigration bill is undergoing significant changes, but many are only cosmetic and won't solve the problem. Also today, Obama's national security mismanagement, the beauty of the American Constitution, how Obama may unify Christians, and the president discovers the first lady.

Back in May, a month after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed the state's gun control law, Stag Arms of New Britain came up with a modified design and took it to the state police firearms unit to see whether it would pass muster.The unit was helpful, even making a design suggestion that would help assure the gun would not be classified as an illegal assault weapon. Stag prepared to make the rifle, a .22 caliber version of the military style AR 15.Then in June, the state legislature tightened the law in order to correct a few problems. Stag returned with an updated model, seeking an opinion.But this time, the firearms unit had a different answer."I was told to get a lawyer, figure it out and if I'm wrong I'm going to have to deal with it," said Mark Malkowski, the Stag Arms owner and president. "It's my responsibility to interpret .... I was told we were no longer allowed to bring prototypes in."FULL STORY

Before we knew that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, what a mess the Obama administration would make of Benghazi, or the Justice Department's monitoring of selected journalists even before Edward Snowden and his national security leaks there was Operation Fast and Furious.FULL STORY

When the American Rifle and Pistol Association launched July 4, it hoped to attract gun owners across the political spectrum who were looking for a "sane" alternative to the NRA. So far, that effort doesn't appear to be going well.FULL STORY

The number of Oklahomans applying for handgun licenses this year is on pace to significantly best last year's record numbers, according to data from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.FULL STORY

Despite Tuesday's dramatic concealed carry victory at the Statehouse, gun rights advocates headed back into federal court Wednesday to object to the pace at which the state intends to carry out the new law.Downstate gun owner Mary Shepard and the Illinois State Rifle Association filed paperwork in two Downstate federal courts, seeking authority to begin carrying weapons now rather than wait during the 270 day implementation period they say the state intends to follow.FULL STORY

"This is a historic, significant day for law abiding gun owners," the Associated Press quotes Rep. Brandon Phelps as saying. "They finally get to exercise their Second Amendment rights."Phelps, a Democrat, hails from Harrisburg, Ill., a small city more than five hours south of Chicago by road. In a decade in the state House, the AP notes, he "has continued work on concealed carry begun by his uncle, ex Rep. David Phelps, who began serving in the mid 1980s." Yesterday that work came to fruition as lawmakers in Springfield overrode Gov. Pat Quinn's "amendatory veto" of a bill establishing a permitting system for the carrying of concealed firearms.FULL STORY

The headline on last Sunday's Chicago Tribune was stark and arresting: "A thousand shootings." That's what Chicago experienced in the first six months of 2013. It works out to more than five a day.So what crime issue got Gov. Pat Quinn worked up last week? The danger posed by Illinoisans holding state permits to carry concealed firearms. "My foremost duty as governor is to keep the people of Illinois safe," he said in issuing an amendatory veto of a bill to legalize concealed carry in the last state without it.FULL STORY

The first salvo in a legal battle to block Colorado's new limits on gun ammunition magazines fizzled Wednesday, but sheriffs, firearm dealers and other opponents still aim to have the law declared unconstitutional.Both sides in the dispute about the new gun law reached a last minute agreement to clarify certain provisions of the law, which limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds.FULL STORY

Applications for permits to carry concealed weapons in Kansas set a record in the fiscal year ending June 30, more than doubling the record set in the previous year.Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Wednesday that 25,340 applications for permits were filed with the state between July 1, 2012, and June 30. The old mark was 12,408 applications in the fiscal year 2012.FULL STORY

Lawmakers made Illinois the last state to allow concealed carry of firearms in two quick votes Tuesday that formalized the deepening rift between Gov. Pat Quinn and the legislature.The House and Senate voted to override Quinn's amendatory veto of a legislative compromise aimed at satisfying a federal court deadline for legalizing some form of public possession of firearms. Illinois was the last state without some form of legal concealed carry, but the appeals court ruled late last year that the ban was unconstitutional.FULL STORY

Two Colorado Democrats targeted for recall elections for supporting the state's new gun control laws were pursuing legal challenges to avoid going back to the ballot this year after failing to have the recall efforts thrown out.FULL STORY

On the same day of the court mandated deadline for Illinois to allow the concealed carry of weapons in public, lawmakers are set to gather in Springfield to consider Gov. Pat Quinn's sweeping changes to a bill allowing the practice.FULL STORY

The Illinois General Assembly isn't the only legislative body meeting in special session to talk about guns.The Chicago City Council will do the same next week.Mayor Rahm Emanuel is calling a special Council meeting for July 17 to consider his companion plans to update and strengthen Chicago's assault weapons ban and impose stiffer penalties for gun crimes committed near schools, on buses and along "Safe Passage" routes.FULL STORY

Anyone with suggestions on improving Massachusetts' gun laws will get another chance to have their say before lawmakers act.On Monday, the Public Safety Committee is holding a public hearing at Assumption College in Worcester on nearly 60 gun related bills.FULL STORY

After the deadly school massacre in Newtown, Conn., top Rhode Island leaders gathered to recommend ways to crack down on gun violence. Topping the list were proposals to ban semi automatic assault weapons and high capacity magazines.The idea came from Gov. Lincoln Chafee, House Speaker Gordon Fox, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed and Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and had the backing of the mayors of Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls.Yet the gun control legislation was left to languish when lawmakers adjourned their 2013 session Wednesday. Other proposals to change the way handgun permits are awarded or to require gun owners to pay a $100 per gun registration fee also failed after huge protest rallies at the Statehouse.FULL STORY

Snug against the Rockies, this conservative bastion is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy, Pikes Peak, scores of evangelical churches and soon, perhaps, the most significant gun control fight in the country.FULL STORY

Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday made sweeping changes to a bill that would allow concealed guns to be carried in public, writing in tougher regulations he deemed "common sense" amid staunch criticism from lawmakers who say they are poised to overturn his efforts when they return to Springfield next week.FULL STORY

Gov. Pat Quinn moved Tuesday to tighten legislation that would end Illinois' last in the nation prohibition on gun owners carrying their weapons in public places, setting the stage for near certain legislative defeat for him next week.FULL STORY

Calling it a "flawed bill with serious safety problems," Gov. Pat Quinn changed a concealed carry measure Tuesday to impose a one-gun limit on the number of firearms that a person can carry and ban them entirely from establishments where alcohol is served.
The Democratic governor used his amendatory veto power to tweak the legislation sent to him after months of debate and negotiation over the measure.
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Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn intends to take action Tuesday on legislation that would allow guns to be carried in public, and he's widely expected to insert changes to the bill to try to put in place stricter regulations.FULL STORY

Starting Monday, licensed gun owners will be allowed to bring their concealed weapons into more government buildings in Kansas and people who try to bring them into places where they are prohibited won't face criminal penalties.The provisions are part of an expansion of Kansas' concealed carry law passed during last year's legislative session as the federal government was discussing gun control measures in the wake of a mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December. The new rules allow people with concealed carry permits to bring firearms into public buildings deemed not to have adequate security measures, such as metal detectors and trained guards.FULL STORY

More than a year removed from his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a headliner in a new and equally crowded campaign.Perry and governors representing other gun friendly states are aggressively attempting to lure gunmakers, suppliers and other vendors away from Connecticut and the surrounding region, which for generations has drawn much of its identity from the firearms industry.FULL STORY

New limits on ammunition magazines and universal background check requirements take effect in Colorado on Monday, even as county sheriffs fight to overturn the signature pieces of state Democrats' gun control legislation.FULL STORY

The new certificates for purchasing long guns - rifles and shotguns - and ammunition that become available Monday were one of the key provisions in the Newtown legislation.Adults 18 years and older can begin applying for the long gun eligibility certificates, which require completion of an instructional course and state and federal background checks. Those certificates or a valid state issued gun permit will be required as of April 1, 2014, for anyone who buys or receives a long gun. The certificate will be good for five years.FULL STORY

A proposed ordinance that would ban and regulate assault weapons is set to be presented to the Skokie Village Board on Monday in the hopes of beating a deadline established by Springfield legislators.FULL STORY

The state Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill that calls for embedding firearms permit information in gun owners' New Jersey driver's licenses, the centerpiece of a gun control initiative crafted by Democrats after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings in December 2012.FULL STORY

The measure, which stipulates stricter training requirements, was passed by the Idaho Legislature and signed into law by the governor earlier this year.Gun owners will be required to complete an eight hour training course with an NRA certified firearms instructor before being approved for the permit. Classes will cover law and safety, and they will require attendees to shoot at least 98 rounds.Ada County Sheriff's Deputy Tom Terrall said the more stringent guidelines might prompt more states to honor Idaho's concealed weapons license, but there's no guarantee that will happen. Only 29 states recognize Idaho permits as valid, he said.FULL STORY

Quebec's Court of Appeal has sided with the federal government's argument that the national long-gun registry information shouldn't be handed over to the province to create its own database.That moves the government closer to destroying the Quebec data, which was preserved last year by the court order after legislation was passed to scrap the federal registry and the records contained within it.FULL STORY

A bill designed to encourage background checks for gun sales has failed in the Maine Legislature.The Democratic controlled House on Wednesday voted to sustain Republican Gov. LePage's veto of the bill.FULL STORY

Santa Fe will not limit how big gun magazines can be. The decision comes after a plan to ban on high capacity automatic gun ammunition magazines was shot down at a packed city hall meeting Wednesday night."The state constitution is very clear that in no way can it be regulated by anybody,” Thomas Iddings said. “But it's not the magazines that are the problem. It's criminals."FULL STORY

The lawsuit filed by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and several individual plaintiffs -- including Assemblyman Bill Nojay, R-Monroe County -- contends in part that the SAFE Act infringes on New Yorkers' Second Amendment rights because it impedes their ability to defend themselves in their own homes.FULL STORY

After an emotional meeting in which people lined the walls and overflowed from the City Council chamber, Highland Park officials voted this week to ban assault weapons in their community.Gun enthusiasts said the ordinance would not stop crime — except by making criminals out of responsible rifle owners. Others applauded the move as helping protect the city against tragedies.FULL STORY